WILD pigs can be dangerous prey.
Personally I hate pigs. Probably stems from my very early youth visiting small farms. Loved all the animals except those dirty, nasty, evil sounding pigs. Good thing they are taste or we could just get rid of them.
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Awww…
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Lunch.
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EVERYTHING is cute when they are babies.
and carefully scrubbed.
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Looks just like Wilbur!
And anthropomorphized in a film?
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One reason it upsets me is that I’ve spent ages extolling the virtues of boingboing to my friends and then the first thing I hear from them is this. I feel like I’ve recommended a restaurant and the next time I go there one of the cooks is tapping the ashes from his cigarette in the soup.
Husbands are fine?
Your dogs are killing the livestock, your livestock is killing the dogs, or your dogs are killing your other dogs?
Speaking as a dog owner, clear consistent communication is key.
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What is that screenshot from?
The Hannibal TV series.
The character is Mason Verger, a wealthy and powerful sadist whose family fortune was built on raising swine. His hobbies include breeding aggressive pigs with the idea of feeding people to them. Following a “therapy” session, Dr. Lecter plies him with drugs and convinces him to cut off his own face and feed it to hungry dogs. Lecter then breaks his neck leaving him horribly disfigured and paralyzed.
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Do the kids object to the crates? I mean, the crates establish clear limits, but, you know, not everyone gets that. 
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Gary Oldman played the same guy in the movie, no?
I never watched the TV series, but I remember that film being utterly dreadful. Even Red Dragon was better (although I guess I watched Red Dragon afterwards, so it didn’t put me off that much…).
Yep. They played with the timeline from the novels a bit. For example, in the novel and the Hannibal movie Verger bred the terror-pigs as part of a years-long revenge plot to have Lecter eaten alive. In the TV series Verger had already bred them as a hobby project before he ever met Lecter.
Would it be this scene that put you off, perhaps?
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The difference is that in the UK the farmers are the only ones packing. Less chance of a 4-year-old dog owner shooting back.
Locally the preferred method of hunting feral pigs is with knives and with genuinely insane vicious monster dogs. (If any of my hunting neighbors are reading this: just kidding! Your dogs are sweet and lovely I’m sure when they’re not tearing 200 pound boars apart limb from limb or hurling themselves against your fence when the neighborhood children walk past your house and do you need some financial help in repairing the broken boards or bent chainlink because I’d be delighted to help out?)
What??? That’s freakin’ adorable.
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Well, hey, I like baby crows too but most humans find them … disturbing apparently? I think baby humans are … overrated but I felt if I posted photos of baby humans no one would get the idea. 
